1990 Divisional Round Redskins @ 49ers

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  @NathanDav42 · 6 years ago (edited)

  It’s hard to think of one conference/league in sports history as deep and talented as the NFC from 1981 to 1996, a period where an NFC team won the Super Bowl every year except for 1983. The amazing thing was having playoff games seemingly every year featuring the previous year’s champ, the current year’s champ, and the next year’s champ.<br><br>Here in 1990 you have the 1989 (and 88) Super Bowl champs 49ers - probably the greatest team in NFL history - playing a Redskins team that in 1991 would be one of the 10 greatest teams in history also. In the NFC Championship game, the ‘88-89 champ Niners will lose to the eventual 90-champ Giants. And this happened almost every year!<br><br>In ‘83 NFC Title game the ‘82 Champ Redskins beat the eventual ‘84 Champ Niners.<br><br>In ‘84 NFC Title game the ‘84 champ Niners beat the eventual ‘85 Champ Bears.<br><br>In the ‘85 NFC Wild Card round the eventual ‘86 champ Giants knocked off the ‘84 champ Niners. The next week in the Divisional Round the legendary champ ‘85 Bears beat those same Giants.<br><br>In the ‘86 NFC Divisional round the eventual ‘87 champ Redskins upset the ‘85 Bears repeat-bid in Chicago. The next week in the NFC Title game the ‘86 champ Giants beat those Redskins.<br><br>Then you have the ‘93 champ Cowboys beating the eventual ‘94 champ Niners (they also beat the Niners in the ‘92 NFC Title game).<br><br>In ‘94 the Niners struck back and knocked off the Cowboys...who would win it themselves again in ‘95.<br>In the ‘95 Divisional Rd the Niners were upset by a Brett Favre-led Packers team that would win the Super Bowl the following year in ‘96. Then the Cowboys, the eventual champs of ‘95, themselves knocked off their eventual successors from Green Bay.<br><br>We have never seen anything like it before, and I doubt we ever will again.

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  @eblissreseller · 2 years ago

  This style of football combined with classic broadcasters brings back fond memories of when the NFL was watchable.

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  @MrAce-lm8es · 4 years ago

  The Last playoff win for Joe Montana as a San Francisco 49er.

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  @Skyfire1984 · 9 months ago

  John Taylor should be in the Hall Of Fame.

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  @michael.prescott4016 · 6 years ago

  i forgot merlin Olsen, finished on CBS

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  @fboness368 · 11 months ago

  Joe Montana&apos;s last full game as the starting QB for the 49ers.

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  @joep2060 · 5 years ago

  I&apos;ll say that in all my years of following the NFL is that playoffs and super bowls the hardest teams to beat was the NFC east best division ever assembled by the NFL

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  @linkboy321 · 7 years ago

  Thank you for uploading this. I&apos;m always down for more classic 49ers games.<br><br>You wouldn&apos;t happen to have the 92 49ers/Lions game would you? Montana&apos;s last game in a 49ers uniform.

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  @plainsimple244 · 7 years ago

  Funny thing is the Redskins won the title in &apos;91 - the following year... damn great football!

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  @chrisorr4902 · 7 years ago

  Montana, Craig, and Lott last post season win with the 49ers.

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  @csdvevo6138 · 4 years ago

  2 best teams in the nfl at this time IMO

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  @tinkyman100 · 3 years ago

  The Niners didn&apos;t use the shot gun formation while Montana was there. When I played Tecmo Bowl ages ago the slant to either Jones or Rice was automatic.

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